I saw Obama on Larry King Live last night and for the first time I noticed Obama’s subtle resemblance to Richard Nixon.
- Large toothy smile.
- Faint hint of five o’clock shadow.
- Baritone.
- Lawyerly love of equivocation.
- Early national prominence not fully matched by a corresponding record of achievements.
In a sense, this comes back to the most fundamental Q about O: is he at bottom a garden-variety pol?
To be sure, although Richard Nixon is still widely despised, there’s an argument to make that he was among the two or three most effective post-war Presidents. Detente with Russia and the normalization of relations with China still stand as major accomplishments whose impact few Presidents have matched. If the bottom line is that Obama is simply a smoother, politically correct version of Tricky Dick, well, that might not be a bad thing.
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